Why Would They Name this Comic Dick Cole?

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Golden Age comic books can be a grab bag of genres and quality but Dick Cole adds something unique to the mix: some bizarre innuendo. Dick Cole was a military cadet who got into adventures like sports competitions and mysteries with gangsters. And every once in a while something stranger, like battling a dinosaur. But what was up with his name?

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@OtakuD50 Год назад

Dick Cole is a reliable fella. You can always count on him to come, no matter how hard it gets.

@AxeGaijin Год назад

It is rumoured that sometimes he even arrives too early, but I've been told that happens to the best of us....

@rojaws1183 Год назад

He is usually a big softie.

@papaonta Год назад

i see what you did there

@bfdidc6604 Год назад

@@rojaws1183 But don't piss him off!

@rojaws1183 Год назад

@@bfdidc6604 Yeah he can be a straight hard guy if he need to.

@spectacularlysentimental Год назад

"But after reading all 151 Dick Cole comics..." WHAT THE HECK? The amount of dedication to your videos are insane. Hope this does well!

@ComicTropes Год назад

Most of the stories were only 8 to 10 pages.

@Enigmanaut Год назад

@@ComicTropes So, 1200 to 1500 pages? Selling yourself short...

@facespaz Год назад

@@ComicTropes That's still an abnormal amount of Dick Cole

@ridhosamudro2199 Год назад

That's a lot of Dick!

@wellesradio Год назад

@@Enigmanaut All in all, about 4-6 hours of reading.

@Jackferrett6781 Год назад

Richard Head

@dante_0962 Год назад

Richard Diamond.

@Electric-vo9zv Год назад

Mike Hunt

@ragnadrabinowitz7629 Год назад

jack mehoffer

@paulheap1982 Год назад

A company I used to work for had an area manager named Richard Cheese.

@dc9662 Год назад

Headmaster Richard de Balzac

@MariaVosa Год назад

Chris: The name was a deliberate innuendo Me: I'm not sure, what about Dick Grays... Chris: He had a brother named Rod Me: ... Ok, you're right.

@a.champagne6238 Год назад

Dick grazing?

@scriptmonkeys71 Год назад

I was saddened when you didn’t read the Professor’s dialogue bubble because it had to be the funniest one: “No one would believe me- no one would give me a chance to prove my theories. But now we’ll show ‘em, Dick!” Sage advice in any era.

@JonathanFournier Год назад

A baby lounging in gamma rays and saying "My name is Dick Cole" may be my new favorite comic panel of all time.

@JonathanFournier Год назад

May have spoke too soon. Just got to the panel with the poor sea turtle.

@michaelwalsh9616 Год назад

Fun fact about novelty: they made the blue bolt to be their big title ala superman. However the character didn't garner much attention, where as Cole who was published in side stories became more popular. Rather than immediately making a separate magazine for Cole, Novelty kept futily promoting BB, going so far as eliminating his fantastical origin and making him MORE like Dick Cole. By the time they did concied to giving Col his own title, the company was already falling under and the character had lost his initial popularity

@TheEndKing Год назад

Now that's some Vince McMahon thinking.

@leress Год назад

Comic Tropes did a video pretty recently about Blue Bolt.

@michaelwalsh9616 Год назад

@@leress I learned about it from Austin McConnell who made a video about the blue bolt

@leress Год назад

@@michaelwalsh9616 Yeah, I got them confused I also watched that video from Austin. That was the video I was talking about.

@cha5 Год назад

Blue Bolt’s glory days were during the earliest Simon & Kirby run IMHO, after they left that comic he was pretty much redundant.

@trevorghalt1881 Год назад

Dick Cole looks like he got balls of steel and I feel like he would make a great seaman

@alejoparedes2388 Год назад

"Our editors keep objectionable material out of this publication."

@GleeChan Год назад

I have to admit, I didn't think I'd see a video about Dick Cole coming. Thank you Chris for cranking these out. You're hard work really is a pleasure.

@TheDing1701 Год назад

🤣🤣

@Jezee213 Год назад

haha! ok, that got me, nicely done.

@catsofsherman1316 Год назад

Why did Marvel publish a comic called "Giant Size Man Thing"?

@legoarkhamiteproductions4869 Год назад

I think that was intentional. If I’m not mistaken Steve Gerber created that title, and he loved jokes like that, particularly in Howard The Duck. The title I think was initially in reference to Marvel’s Giant Size issues, basically the equivalent of DC’s 80 Page Giants, but the innuendo probably made him want to use the title more.

@princecharon Год назад

I wonder if a modern innuendo-laden Dick Cole comic would be able to take off.

@tommylakindasorta3068 Год назад

You might say it would face some ... stiff competition.

@alchemistofsteel8099 Год назад

It could be like Venture bros

@Clay3613 Год назад

Campy Gay military men?

@benw9949 Год назад

He got his expert marksmanship award. they said he was a straight shooter. Well...possibly in one sense but not the other? Anyway, he had great aim.

@Chairmangoodchild Год назад

I certainly hope Dick will rise again!

@patricktilton5377 Год назад

So, did Dick Cole ever wrestle with the One-Eyed Wonder Worm?

@ComicPower Год назад

I guess calling him Harry Balls would have been too much.

@aikisteven0616 Год назад

Wow, I'm going to have to find some of these Dick Cole stories. I never thought I'd be so interested in Dick, but I can honestly say I'd like to grab as much Dick Cole as I can get my hands on! Yes, from this moment on, I'm a big fan of Dick!

@WanArk86 Год назад

I first thought that "Why does his named Dick but he's not a detective" until Rod was mention then I was like "Ahhh... Yeah that was intentional" Made me think that was one of the reason why it was much more popular then the Blue Bolt.

@jameshowlettii761 Год назад

@@simonbrehm358 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀💀👌

@enzovulkoor Год назад

That comic just kept dad jokes going, in one, long, incredibly unbroken arc. Moving from innuendo to innuendo.

@archmagefrey Год назад

It was really quite hypnotic.

@shavedape6679 Год назад

The first duty of every comic tropes video is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth

@Shamax0 Год назад

Just opened the video, but wanted to leave comment so I don't forget to do so later! Thanks for everything you do Chris, I've been watching for a while, and you definitely got me back into reading comics Wish you all the best man!

@monoinyo Год назад

I'm giving a like before I even watch because chris don't miss

@TCMcBiscuits Год назад

My favourite Dick Cole story is the one where he rescues his girlfriend Amy Atus from a one-eyed monster.

@stephenmumford9995 Год назад

I also enjoyed reading The Adventures of Mike Hunt.

@nobel11 Год назад

And who can forget when they had that epic crossover with Mike Ox?

@tommylakindasorta3068 Год назад

@@nobel11 And the time he went up against Jack Mehoff.

@deliusmyth5063 Год назад

And his brother Isaac.

@kanna-san. 6 месяцев назад

@@deliusmyth5063and their sister Yora.

@BadMovieRealm Год назад

I am very impressed by the restraint shown in this video in regards to not throwing in a ton of extra "Dick Cole" jokes and innuendo. I would not have been able to resist that low-hanging fruit.

@Rob_Gibson Год назад

I needed to start my week with something silly. Superhero timing as always, Chris. Thank you!

@graphosxp Год назад

Dick Cole was also a real dude! this comic character was *not* based upon him though. "Richard Eugene Cole (September 7, 1915 - April 9, 2019) was a United States Air Force colonel. During World War II, he was one of the airmen who took part in the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, Japan, on April 18, 1942. He served as the co-pilot to Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle in the lead airplane of the raid by sixteen B-25 bombers, which for the first time took off from an aircraft carrier on a bombing mission."

@albaniahenry-franklin2829 Год назад

Let us not forget there was also a syndicated radio program that starred our intrepid hero made in the mid 1940s! At least one episode is here on RU-vid😉

@randomnerdery6511 Год назад

These golden age deep dives are literally the best!

@johnjohnson8575 Год назад

I had a teacher whose name was surnames was pronounced the same as "pretty". And his first name was Richard. I alway laughed at him being Dick Pretty or Pretty, Dick.

@RickReasonnz Год назад

Oh, that reminds me on when in school we had a Roll of Honour read out every year during our memorial day.. "Brown, I" says the headmaster, and the immature young kids would crack up giggling every damn time.

@pious83 Год назад

This sounds like a character Grant Morrison or Alan Moore would have a field day with.

@Keihzaru Год назад

Why WOULDN'T you call your comic Dick Cole if you had the chance?

@SoulStarSketchin Год назад

There was more Dick in this episode than anything else and I managed to sit through it without laughing too much. I've seen this comic a long time ago somewhere at a comic shop but had no clue what in the world it was but the name was still laugh out loud funny and glad to see the creators were definitely in on the joke. Those times were wild man.

@kaboombox1581 Год назад

Missed opportunity to have his rival/arch nemesis be named Mike Hunt.

@davidmcmahon4633 Год назад

You should review Crimebuster from Boy Comics. His costume is basically his school hockey uniform. I found many of the stories to be very entertaining.

@facespaz Год назад

Holy innuendo Batman! Great job as always!

@AshMashDashSplash Год назад

These types of videos are my favourite, always really enjoy the humour

@thattinawoman5119 10 месяцев назад

Every time I think about the panel with the tiny muscular baby posing under the heat lamp wearing sunglasses/goggles repeating "I am Dick Cole"...straight up giggles every time.

@skarloey1214 Год назад

Before the video i got a survey about which store i would consider buying from and one of them was Dick's Sporting Goods

@tommylakindasorta3068 Год назад

Wouldn't it be interesting if Dick's merged with Kohl's?

@corrosivecabal Год назад

All this modern-day "gay-panick" with children when meanwhile in the 1940's...

@-Teague- Год назад

The more things change the more things stay the same 😂

@corrosivecabal Год назад

@@-Teague- the joke is that they had more of a reason to suspect that was the case in the 40s, which makes it all the more obvious that people are just being intolerant bigoted liars today.

@jasonbeatty831 Год назад

Do a feature on Holden and Sharon Cox next!

@XcmShow Год назад

I love golden age characters so much

@In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock. Год назад

Yay, more golden age!!! My favorite content you make, Chris!

@TheZooropaBaby Год назад

I like that compared to other Golden Age characters, this one doesnt seem that bad, at least it's got variety in stories etc

@danieldickholtz6405 Год назад

Given my own last name, I was a little wary of where this video was going to go. However, I was pleasantly surprised and really enjoyed hearing about all those weird and wonderful adventures!

@KevinSorbo. Год назад

Daniel dick holes is an epic name. Flex that shit

@jasonreid4220 Год назад

Kind of surreal. I'm sitting hear watching this @ work and had to pause and go back when Chris mentioned the Saturday Evening Post and Novelty Press being a subsidiary of Curtis Publishing. My job is in the Curtis Building, which I never expected to be tangentially referenced in a comic tropes video. Ha!

@pattongilbert Год назад

I actually already knew about Dick Cole! Austin McConnell made a video about Blue Bolt in his process of making a copyright-free superhero universe; he mentioned Dick Cole while telling the story.😊

@philliphessel6788 Год назад

This research seems to counter Jeff Rovin’s old hypothesis that the height of Golden Age double entendres was the meeting of the Red Torpedo and Queen Klitra.

@tommylakindasorta3068 Год назад

To the people claiming it was all innocent and we just have our minds in the gutter, I defy you to explain the panel at 6:26 that reads: Bongo ties Dick to the ducking stool with leather thongs taken from an exhibit. "I'm gonna dunk you, woodenhead, until you're waterlogged ... O-oh! Somebody's comin'!"

@slinktan Год назад

This was a ri-DICK-ulous episode! Bwa Ha Haa!

@profjeff9 Год назад

Great video. Hope you're doing okay. I remember you mentioned health issues earlier.

@joedent3323 Год назад

" Dick Cole Vs. Fish Stix Vs. Fact Hunt "... now there is a slobber-knocker (arf) for the Ages. Fun video Chris. I like these light ones :) Cheers! JpD.

@Ninjabread01 Год назад

This is the first new Comic Tropes video I've watched, so glad the intro got a facelift. Love the channel!

@sunilsdesigns1232 Год назад

Always enjoy watching your content, Chris, your channel is my favourite one for comics by far! Thanks for sharing your content, all the best!

@ROMANTIKILLER2 Год назад

One day I would love to see some work gathering together all those wacky Golden Age characters, especially since most of them are now public domain.

@jonathand.t.5051 Год назад

Austin McConnell is trying to do just that lmao

@robvangessel3766 Год назад

I think I spotted a dangling participle in there.

@CthulhusDream Год назад

Oh man, I haven't thought of Strokin' in years 🤣🤣🤣 thank you for reminding me

@hamishcoles1379 Год назад

Dick Cole is gonna be my new alter ego

@nobel11 Год назад

Thank you for this deep dive into Dick Cole.

@Sammmmmmmm617 Год назад

I find it hilarious how L.B. Cole bought the rights to Dick Cole 😂

@prufrock1977 Год назад

Potty humor is timeless

@SargentGrey Год назад

Awesome video 🙂 Thank you. And I love the music intro/outro! Your content makes me feel good about comics again!

@bensneb360 Год назад

It was the 1940’s, he was a much more innocent time, and that sounds like the kind of “rough and tumble” name that was popular then

@vasp99 Год назад

This must be one of those gateway videos because now I'm really into Dick. Dick Cole to be precise .

@richardcoleman3425 Год назад

Thank you for this, Chris! I'd never heard of this character, but he sounds hilarious! There'll be someone out there who is no doubt offended by this comic, by as a Gay man myself, I love both the comedy and the history. Brilliant! Thank you, my Dude. ;)

@shanelorrison5224 Год назад

Videos like these are why I LOVE this channel. Never change, Chris.

@theconqueringram5295 Год назад

Beavis and Butt-Head would've loved this comic!

@belgiumcomics2537 Год назад

This character needs a revival. It would be a great comedy. Edit: Does annyone knows if Dick Colle is public domain?

@martincann5052 Год назад

Remember: Dick Cole be strokin', not smokin,.

@mr.bulldops7692 Год назад

Mike Rotch

@ALIEN-DUDE Год назад

Has anyone seen Mike rotch?

@Oddlogical Год назад

Haha, this was wild! I've never heard of this character, but that's what I appreciate about your videos - they can bring such things to my attention!

@jabezcreed Год назад

You're the most awesome comic RU-vid host, Chris. Videos like this prove it with your selection of topics.

@jabezcreed Год назад

Most commentators wouldn't touch a character like Dick Cole, but I think it's safe to say Dick Cole will be long remembered thanks to your work.

@jonothanthrace1530 Год назад

Sadly, after WWII, his fortunes took a turn for the worse and he took up organized crime under the name Big Dix.

@skarloey1214 Год назад

Until he was beating by blue beetle

@termsofusepolice Год назад

Imagine being a comic book kid back in the day and going from your favorite character, Dick Cole, defeating a rampaging dinosaur one month while the next month's story just has him winning the school track meet. I don't think I would have stayed on that roller-coaster.

@D_Fyre Год назад

I had the same thought lol

@LukeST83 Год назад

All of the double entendre aside, the funniest part for me was his rowing team getting mad at him when his oar broke. It wasn't his fault!

@peterpidrak9501 Год назад

With your quest for innuendo I don’t believe you missed at 10 minutes and 27 seconds what his friend calls the lion he is about to go wrestle.

@ComicTropes Год назад

Oh, I had LOTS more examples and didn't call all of them out. Check out the first baseball image I use right BEFORE I mention football.

@chrisgay4786 Год назад

this was great thanks for doing it.

@matthewhood7844 Год назад

Another fun golden age examination. You switching places with your puppet kinda freaked me out.

@kennysp666 Год назад

No comment to the note "Our editors keep objectionable material out of this publication."?

@ComicTropes Год назад

I figured if I simply included it, plenty of folks like yourself would notice.

@mauriciomusso96 Год назад

Loving these editions

@ShadowEl Год назад

Found myself laughing out loud at 6:00. I wonder if my grandpa ever read Dick Cole.

@wayneashford5697 Год назад

.... you have just got to be kidding me. "$3xual innuendos" aside...this is one of the funniest episodes you've done yet. Thank you for helping make my (1st day) at work a lot easier to get done...😅😅😅!!!

@wattsbelco2308 Год назад

Many coxswains used to have such megaphones strapped to their heads, because both hands were used to steer via cable. Electric mike and speakers are now more common.

@reytorcaza2770 Год назад

Greetings from Cali Colombia My friend,keep the great work!!

@lunarmodule6419 Год назад

Love when you do golden age video! Thx bro

@dreadnok9195 Год назад

I love your videos on obscure Golden age comics.

@johnmitchelljr Месяц назад

Thanks for the golden age comics series.

@nickdirienzo2849 4 месяца назад

Classic Comic Tropes humor! Great episode!😂

@tommylakindasorta3068 Год назад

This is already turning into one of the most entertaining comment sections in a long time. Thanks, Dick Cole!

@howlingwolf131 Год назад

I can't stop laughing everytime you say Dick Cole.

@stefanschleps8758 Год назад

"we kin quick see who's got a load 'o rock salt in 'im!" And with that my dinner came out my nose. Thanks for sharing Chris. (My wife and child will never be the same.)

@ArispeMatt 6 месяцев назад

When I saw the title of this video, I assumed that it was because Richard Cole was his father, thank you very much.

@themoviemaniac8416 Год назад

Hahaha, often innuendo is always there when you're really LOOKING for it. Sometimes finding it says more about you than about what you looking at.😄

@NCassette Год назад

Another great episode

@Aranesque Год назад

I can imagine the people making this comic, snickering all the time.

@SIDEKICKDUSTY Год назад

Never imagined I would see Clarence Carter show up on Comic Tropes. Ain't complaining

@ColeHrusovsky Год назад

I feel called out

@ComicDrake Год назад

Oh wild! I just watched a video about Blue Bolt not that long ago.

@user-rc3cm1zv4j Год назад

The amount of innuendos in this video is killing me

@PlayingGilly Год назад

Dick Cole sounds like a name you would hear on talk radio in a Grand Theft Auto game.

@mizukarate 4 месяца назад

I created a new character. The great grandson of Dick Cole.......Dick Cole the Third. This way we can have a variety of Dick Cole's.😂😂😂😂😂😂

@edwardburek1717 Год назад

I have just made myself familiar with this character courtesy of the Comic Book Plus website heartily recommended by yourself. The name Dick Cole would have been the Carry On character that escaped (if you're familiar with Carry On films as us British, you'll know what I'm on about). One point about this video: there's a disclaimer note at 4:56 that says "Our editors keep objectionable material out of this publication". Yeah, right...😜